Sentence examples for to scum from inspiring English sources
noun
A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
As The Tribe unfolds – and our memories shift from if… to Scum – its visual language grows progressively less subtle.
He also hoped it would neutralise the bad feeling after the riots on the run-down housing estates and his comment likening the wayward youths to scum.
A few years ago, an error on Google caused a spoof Greggs logo to flash up with the overlaid slogan: "Providing shit to scum for over 70 years".
Everything from rooftop water towers to scum on the glassy surface of the Gowanus Canal is observed with exhilarated clarity (Johnson).
On an infamous visit in 2005, when he was interior minister, he shocked France by promising to clear out the "racaille" – an offensive term likening local youths to scum.
The transformation of the working class from salt of the earth to scum of the earth – from Coronation Street to Benefits Street – was the battering ram that cleared the way for benefit cuts and austerity.
The newly developed process used a six-step method to convert scum to biodiesel, a higher value product.
Over the course of this memoir, his disenchantment with the party and what it has done to his family begins to float, like scum, to the surface.
I start my search in the yellow pages, drawn to the ads geared to the scum of the earth.
We are the owners of this country and will not leave it to those scum if they aim to scare us with such attacks".
These ions are easily precipitated and in particular react with soap to make it difficult to remove scum.
